The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has said the elderly woman who suddenly collapsed and died at the offices of the Ministry of Defense was hypertensive and had other illnesses.
Today morning, an elderly woman suddenly collapsed in a lift at Postel Building in Kampala on her way to the 7th floor, the same building that houses the office of the Ministry of Defense.
According to the UPDF Deputy Spokesperson Lt. Col. Deo Akiiki, the deceased has been identified as Masumba Annet (76), a born of Wanale Sub-County, Mbale Municipality. It is believed she had come to claim his deceased sons monthly pension payments.
The deceased according to the army was in company of his son a one Wagidoso Wasolo and the two were climbing the steps to access the office but later decided to enter a lift where the elderly woman collapsed.
Lt. Col. Akiiki says the UPDF medical team from the UPDF Senior Diagnostics Center led by Dr. Brenda Aboke was was immediately called in and pronounced the old woman dead.
The Police was also called to the scene to undertake other procedures and the body taken to Bombo Military Hospital for postmortem and further management.
It was established from her son that she was battling Arthritis and High Blood Pressure according to Lt. Col. Deo Akiiki.
At the time of her death Annet Masumba was the one responsible for the estates of his late son a late UPDF soldier who passed on in 1999, and she has been receiving monthly pension payments.